KJV Dictionary Definition: gather

gather

GATH'ER, v.t.

1. To bring together; to collect a number of separate things into one place or into one aggregate body.

Gather stones; and they took stones,and made a heap. Gen.31.

2. To get in harvest; to reap or cut and bring into barns or stores. Levit. 25.20.

3. To pick up; to glean; to get in small parcels and bring together.

Gather out the stones. Is.62.

He must gather up money by degrees.

4. To pluck; to collect by cropping, picking or plucking.

Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? Matt.7.

5. To assemble; to congregate; to bring persons into one place. Ezek. 22.19.

6. To collect in abundance; to accumulate; to amass.

I gathered me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings. Eccles.2.

7. To select and take; to separate from others and bring together.

Save us, O Lord our God, and gather us from among the heathen. Ps.106.

8. To sweep together.

The kingdom of heaven is like a net that was cast into the sea, and gathered of every kind. Matt.13.

9. To bring into one body or interest.

Yet will I gather others to him. Is.56.

10. To draw together from a state of expansion or diffusion; to contract.

Gathering his flowing robe he seemed to stand,

In act to speak, and graceful stretch'd his hand.

11. To gain.

He gathers ground upon her in the chase.

12. To pucker; to plait.

13. To deduce by inference; to collect or learn by reasoning. From what I hear I gather that he was present.

After he had seen the vision, immediately we endeavored to go into Macedonia, assuredly gathering that the Lord had called us to preach the gospel to them. Acts.16.

14. To coil as a serpent.

To gather breath, to have respite.

GATH'ER, v.i. To collect; to unite; to increase; to be condensed. The clouds gather in the west.

1. To increase; to grow larger by accretion of like matter.

Their snow ball did not gather as it went.

2. To assemble. The people gather fast.

3. To generate pus or matter. See Gathering.

gatherable

GATH'ERABLE, a. That may be collected; that may be deduced. Unusual.

gathered

GATH'ERED, pp. Collected; assembled; contracted; plaited; drawn by inference.

gatherer

GATH'ERER, n. One who gathers or collects; one who gets in a crop.

gathering

GATH'ERING, ppr. Collecting; assembling; drawing together; plaiting; wrinkling.

GATH'ERING, n. The act of collecting or assembling.

1. Collection; a crowd; an assembly.

2. Charitable contribution. 1 Cor.16.

3. A tumor suppurated or maturated; a collection of pus; an abscess.

gathers

GATH'ERS, n. Plaits; folds; puckers; wrinkles in cloth.

Definitions from Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language, 1828.
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